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Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of Korea's Hiroshima

Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of Korea's Hiroshima

Pilzer, Joshua D.

Paperback

Korean HistoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 0197615090
ISBN13: 9780197615096
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 23 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
Most of us the world over do not know much about the nuclear experience, let alone the 70,000 Korean victims of the atomic bomb or their arts of life and survival. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of Korea's Hiroshima gives new insight into the overlooked and abused people who have lived and died on the margins of East Asian modernity. This book is an ethnography of Korean first- and second-generation victims of the atomic bombing of Japan focused on the everyday arts that make life possible and worthwhile.

Author Joshua D. Pilzer recounts the stories and songs of atomic bomb survivors and their children in Hapcheon, Korea, offering a corrective to the enduring, multifaceted neglect and marginalization they have faced. Struck by the quiet of Korea's Hiroshima, Pilzer sheds light on its many sources: notions of Japanese soft-spokenness, vocal disability, the quiet contemplation of texts, the changes to the human heart as one grows older, the experience of war, social marginalization, traumatic experience, and various social movement discourses. He considers victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating the traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present.

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